A ticket fraudster had has his prison sentence extended, after failing to repay £1.25 million under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Terence Shepherd of Blackheath in southeast London made millions of pounds as a result of ticketing fraud – and had even defrauded the parents of Olympic athlete Rebecca Adlington. As a result, Ms Adlington’s parents missed seeing her compete and win a gold medal in one event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, because the tickets they had bought online costing £1,100 never arrived.
Shepherd has completed half of his eight-year sentence for ticketing fraud, which involved thousands of tickets being sold online for sports and music events – the tickets, however, were never delivered to the purchasers.
At Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Shepherd’s sentence was extended by a further six years in jail as a result of his failure to repay the money he gained as a result of ticket fraud.
Shepherd spoke to the court by video link from prison and protested against the additional sentence, but the court was told that he had “wilfully” refused to comply with a confiscation order served on him – and had also failed to sell his family’s home worth an estimated £3m to repay the money.
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